Linhof Accessories Platform

Lee,
Before I take the time to get you a quote, just want to make sure you understand that the platform is designed to attach to this tripod's geared column, which is why I'm offering as a set. So you may have to create an adapter of some kind if you want to attach it to a different tripod, in which case you'd need to know the dimension of the geared column, which is a nicely chromed (steel, I think, judging by its weight) solid round piece with Dia = 24.1 mm. It has a strip of gear teeth installed into it that protrudes 2.9 mm. That's why the opening in the platform is not simply a round hole, as you can see in these closeup photos. If you really are interested, I'll need your zip to get a shipping quote. The selling price would be $20.

I have this very same head. Nice, sturdy but heavy.
I also have the tripod. You can fully dissasemble it (for shipping) but be very careful not to force anything, the metal breaks very easily. (Don't ask me how I know this...)
The column is in fact only a chromes steel tube (with gearteeth on the side) so if you know the diameter you simply clamp anything you want to it. So for the table it needs only a piece of tube with outher diameter of the hole of the table and inner diameter corresponding to what you want to attach it.

WOW I see now. I thought it was a totally different item (1) head (2) tripod legs (3) tripod/table.
I should have consulted my wife first she could have given me standard answer 001... Lee your wrong again.

Apreciate your taking the time to illuminate what it is. I'll pass for this time. But I do kinda want to know if one might run up the center column put the shelf on low to the legs and have the camera on the top with the head so you have a working shelf below the camera in the studio?

Lee,
As you can see in the photo that shows the platform placed at the bottom of the center column, you would not be able to raise the column very much as the platform would hit the leg braces. However, the column can be raised to its maximum height with the platform installed anywhere between the head and the top of the gear housing. The quickest way to set this up is to hold down the gear release (serrated lever next to hand crank) which disengages the gear-drive from the column while the release is held down, then grab the column and lift it out of the tripod, then slide the platform onto the column and re-insert the column into the tripod while holding down the gear release. Final height positioning of the column and platform can then be done and locked. It's quite easy.